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A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.

Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid. Derham.

er. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South.

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.

Whiteness; anything that is white. The polished argent of her breast. Tennyson.

made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation. The argument is about things, but names. Locke.

Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator. [Obs.]

To proceed; to issue; to spring. Whence haply mention may arise Of something not unseasonable to ask. Milton.

Anything resembling an arm; as,

Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.

Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.

In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town.

An imposing series of things. Their long array of sapphire and of gold. Byron.

Money or other valuable thing given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest.

The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival. Another arrival still more important was speedily announced. Macaulay.

rrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton.